Giving Youth a Voice

The Meaning of Recovery: Brandon Novak

For the Bucks County Community College Bucks Collegiate Recovery Program Event in March of 2025, our podcasters prepared questions for the guest speaker and author Brandon Novak, a skateboarder known…

Interview with a Journalist

Our podcasters interview Reporter June Portnoy, managing Editor of O'Rourke Media Group, about what it's like to become a writer and journalist.

Behind the Beats: How Teens Created Our Podcast Intros

Meet the teens who created the new sound of our podcast. Neshaminy High School music production students took the challenge to compose a variety of intros and outros for the Giving Youth a Voice…

Adults: Coping With Grief and Loss

Coping with grief and loss is different for every individual. Our podcasters interview social worker and thanatologist Amy Keiper-Shaw, founder and president of Hands Holding Hearts in Newtown, PA.…

Kids: Coping With Grief and Loss

This episode focuses on the difficult topic of loss through the lens of kids and how to cope while growing up. Our podcasters discuss grief and loss with social worker and thanatologist Amy…

Rapping About Prevention With Sterlen Barr

In this interview, Sterlen Barr, motivational health educator and rap artist with RAP (Rapping About Prevention), says hopes people will encourage their friends and family members to not smoke or…

TRU Ambassador Advocates for Clean Air and Tobacco Prevention

Tobacco Resistance Unit (TRU) Ambassador Amyrah Moumouni-Snyder, a student at Dauphin County Technical School, talks about what it means to be a TRU Ambassador, how she helped set up Day at the…

Moving up: Transitioning from High School to College

Our Giving Youth a Voice hosts discuss their questions with a first year college student and a college graduate about what arriving to college entails, what resources are available, and chat about…

Moving up: Transitioning from Middle School to High School

Our hosts discuss the realities of going from middle school to high school, and chat with a new ninth grader about what she has to look forward to in high school.

Vaping Loopholes: How Your Voice Can Make a Difference

“I want young people to know what a difference they can make,” says Deb Brown, Chief Mission Officer of the national American Lung Association. In an interview with Giving Youth a Voice podcasters,…

Mental Health Matters: Social Media

Students from Neshaminy interview Dr. Debbie Van Aken, a psychologist from New Hope, Pennsylvania, about how to navigate social media when addressing mental health.

Mental Health Matters: Coping with Mental Health

Students from Neshaminy interview Dr. Debbie Van Aken, a psychologist from New Hope, Pennsylvania, about how to cope with their mental health in this day and age.

Mental Health Matters: Talking to Parents

Students from Neshaminy interview Dr. Debbie Van Aken, a psychologist from New Hope, Pennsylvania. Do you have a difficult time opening up to your parents and loved ones about your mental health?…

The Sunset Challenge: Stand Up Neshaminy

This episode features information about the Sunset Challenge, a 2K and 5K race held in Neshaminy every year by Stand Up Neshaminy. There are interviews with the Sunset Challenge's organizers and…

Young Lungs at Play in Core Creek Park

In this episode, our podcasters interview Angie Nagel, Executive Director of Bucks County Parks and Recreation, about the installation of Young Lungs at Play signs around Core Creek Park's…

CPA Youth Summit 2024

The Commonwealth Prevention Alliance's Youth Summit day featured Neshaminy's Giving Youth A Voice podcast and Adam's county Kids With Coffee podcast to shine a light on Pennsylvania's youth leaders.…

Summer Stock: Summer Theater in Neshaminy

An interview of the superstars behind the Neshaminy Summer Stock program, which is an intensive theater program open to Bucks County students, grades 2-12. Learn from main stage Director Josh Tull,…

Peer Pressure: What Would You Do?

What would you do when you are put into a pressured situation? Questions about peer pressure, posed by youth in Neshaminy, are answered by adults with diverse backgrounds.

Student Assistance Program - Parents

Student Assistance Program - Students